"Let's say I were the type of person who would go to a party where an assortment of recreational drugs were being used. Would it matter, so far as the environment goes, which one I took?
Let's be frank: Most highs for you are kind of a downer for the planet. The conditions under which illegal drugs are produced make it impossible for the government to enforce any sort of clean manufacturing regulations, and the long-standing "War on Drugs" inflicts its own environmental damage. (Think of the RoundUp herbicide sprayed on 120,000 hectares of rural Colombia each year.) There are some ways to measure the eco-credentials of various narcotics, though. To understand how various drugs affect the environment, we need to take a close look at where each one comes from and compare the ways they're harvested or synthesized. [...]"
Chrissy Murderbot, in Chicago ansässiger DJ, releast seit letztem Jahr jede Woche ein neues Mixtape zu verschiedensten & abgefahrensten Musikrichtungen. Nur um ein paar Beispiele zu nennen:
Eine kleine Infografik von Lapham's Quarterly, welche Werke unter dem Einfluss welcher Drogen geschrieben wurden. Leider alles andere als vollständig, aber voilà:
"Reindeerspotting is a documentary film of a group of young guys living in Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle, dabbling in petty crime and hard drugs. One of them, Jani, has lost five years of his life and two fingers to his debotators. He wants to leave Lapland and his old life behind. Robbing a supermarket is a start for his getaway. A few years back a documentarist, Joonas Neuvonen, was a young men living on social welfare, using drugs on daily basis. He started to film his friends and their life. This is the story of Jani." website
So lustig es klingt, so ernst ist war es wahrscheinlich gemeint: Ein Forscherteam der San Diego State University hat eine psychologische Studie über den Konsum von Salvia Divinorum gemacht. Besonders cool: Anhand von YouTube Videos. Anscheinend gibt es tausende von Leuten, die ihre Salvia-Flashs auf Youtube stellen.
Was dabei rausgekommen ist: keine Ahnung. Hier die Resultate, die man wohl nur auf Salvia verstehen kann:
"The mean duration of the videos was 5.8 (SD = 1.91, range = 2.34–9.55) min with users taking an average of 1.71 (SD = .94, range = 1–5) hits while holding the smoke in their lungs for an average of 25.4 (SD = 15.03) s. A range of 0–6 (mode = 2) other people were in the room, with nine (26%) videos including another salvia smoker. In seven (21%) videos, the user was moved, touched or otherwise interfered with in some way by others. In almost half (n = 16), those with the user showed concern for the user, and in 30 (88%) videos the others laughed at the user. Finally, there was a “trip director” or a person that provided instructions to the user in 24 (71%) of the videos.
Dose and administration effects were observed. Number of “hits” was correlated with speech problems, specifically gibberish (r = .353, p < .05), and diction (r = .593, p < .05). Users that exhibited severe diction problems had, on average taken more hits (m= 2.4 vs 1.4, p < .05) than those that did not; those exhibiting severe fluency problems (m= 2.4 vs 1.35, p < .05) took more hits, and held the smoke longer (m= 32 s vs 21.3 s, p < .05) than those that did not. Finally 44% (n = 8) of the water pipe users had severe fluency impairments versus only 13% of the standard pipe users (p < .05). There were insufficient instances of salvia strength verbal descriptions to find relationships with that variable."
Die ganze Studie gibts hier als .pdf. Via MindHacks.
So lustig es klingt, so ernst ist war es wahrscheinlich gemeint: Ein Forscherteam der San Diego State University hat eine psychologische Studie über den Konsum von Salvia Divinorum gemacht. Besonders cool: Anhand von YouTube Videos. Anscheinend gibt es